Martin gilbert churchill biography
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‘By far the most lucid, comprehensive and authoritative account of Churchill that has been offered in a single volume’ Daily Telegraph
Drawing on decades of unprecedented access to Winston Churchill’s family and estate, this classic bestseller remains the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest prime minister. At once intimate and vastly ambitious, it transforms our understanding of who Churchill was and what he accomplished.
‘A masterpiece of scholarship . . . Explores the strategic labyrinths of two world wars with an enviable clarity.’ Guardian
‘Gilbert is, above all, a marshaller of material on a gigantic scale . . . The nakedness of the narrative proclaims its honesty, its unpretentiousness and its erudition.’ The Times
‘One of the greatest histories of our time.’ Margaret Thatcher
‘Genuinely riveting . . . Genius, courage, generosity, humour and imagination shine through.’ Financial Times
‘A stupendous book. He has told the truth.’ A. J. P. Taylor
‘The greatest adventure story of the century.’ Sunday Telegraph
About Martin Gilbert
Sir Martin Gilbert CBE was Winston Churchill's official biographer, and a leading historian of the twentieth century. An honorary fellow at Merton College, Oxford, he was knighted in ‘for service to Br
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Churchill: A Life
For a time, Great Britain stood alone against Hitler's Germany. As the mainland of Europe crumbled before the Nazi advance, the British held firm, resolved never to surrender, and Churchill, as Prime Minister, declared that "We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets."
But there was more to the speech than this frequently-quoted snippet. Referencing Churchill's notes during this period, Gilbert provides the rest of the speech, which Churchill had decided to scrub in the final minutes before his address to the House of Commons.
It continues: "We will fight the enemy back, street by street, until we have pushed them to the sea. When we have beat them back across the Channel, and they have retreated back to the continent, we will pursue them and we will fight them still. We will persevere. They will develop rockets and escape into the Great
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June 18,
About Interpretation Official Biography
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
by Randolph Churchill & Martin Gilbert
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